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>>it's a long way home, back to that place tucked away beneath the towering
red cliffs
between utah and arizona. the place she lived in that other lifetime.

>>it's tough to be back. it brings up a lot of things that are still really raw.

>>then when she was known as sister
becky
and wore those colorful prairie dresses and piled up her long and braided hair and shared a husband with more than 60 other women. it was here in this place they call short creek, or just the creek, here where it happened, on the
dark side
of the real
big love
.

>>a lot of us the same. and a lot has changed. and i'm not the same person that i was either.

>>her name is
rebecca
musser. she has come back to the creek for the first time in years, hoping to find family or friends she
left behind
. anyone that is, who might actually speak to her, given what she did. given what she caused. oh, yes, she's the one. you've heard perhaps about the strange religious leader, his shocking crimes, his dramatic undoing. here is the incredible behind the headlines story, which she chronicled in a brand new book "these are the secrets told for the very first time." the story of the
woman in red
versus one of the fbi's most notorious fugitives, the unlikeliest soldier who went to war with a prophet and said --

>>if that is holy and that is divine and that is heaven, i will take hell.

>>short creek is actually the two little towns of hilldale, utah, and
colorado city
, arizona. the mountain that rises above them is called canin. here lived some 80,000 souls, the core, the center of what they call the work. most people know it as the flds, fundamentalist church of latter-day saints. not mormons. mormons are considered doomed for eternity for the perceived sin of having rejected fundamentalist ideas. like polygamy.

>>we were taught you should want to be a plural wife because it was more holy. you were fulfilling a
higher law
by being a plural wife.

>>no, not just allowed, required by god.

>>their measure of success for the women to marry a good faithful priesthood men where she brings forth as many children as she can, because the more children he has, the larger of a kingdom he has.

>>not exactly mainstream belief or even legal for that matter. but this is after all america, blessed with a constitution that quite pointedly shelters religious freedoms in all their stunning variety.
becky
's father lloyd wall, a convert to the work was a college educated engineer who lived in
salt lake city
and designed equipment for the
space shuttle
. in public he was very successful. but in private? in private lloyd was fully aware, as they all were, that polygamy was illegal, so he did all he could to keep his huge and growing
family secret
.

>>my father had 25 children total. nine from his first wife. 14 from his second wife and two from his third.

>>did you feel different from the people around you?

>>they told us that we were different from the
rest of the world
.

>>your parents did?

>>yes, and our parents taught us we needed to be more obedient because we had this higher
way of life
, and so they just created a tremendous gap
between us
versus them. and terrified us of the
outside world
.

>>there was a reason for that
primal fear
buried deep but unforgotten in the dna of the flds, the raid. it was
july 26th
,
1953
, the
governor of arizona
ordered the arrest of every single man in short creek, and more than 250 children with their mothers were carted away. some of those families weren't reunited for years.
rebecca
, like every flds child heard the story
over and over
again. from the time she was old enough to listen about the day they remembered as their most terrible, and about those awful things the
outside world
did when policemen came. and so they were watchful, wary of outsiders who lived around their crowded split level here in the
salt lake city
suburbs.

>>my dad's first wife and her children lived in the top floor, and my mother, the second wife, and her children lived in the downstairs t bottom basement floor.

>>how did the two wives get along?

>>not so good.

>>no?

>>no. there was a tremendous amount of jealousy from my father's first wife.

>>nevertheless, said
rebecca
, she practiced the work and studied the
holy books
and put her twus and favorite in the church and its prophet,
rulon jeffs
. to
rebecca
,
uncle rulon
, who ruled the church and his home in
salt lake
was more than just a man. by then he had ten wives and over 50 children, and as little
becky
was thought to believe, rulon spoke directly with god.

>>he was our connection to the divine, and so yes, i did look up to him.

>>so of course
rebecca
, along with everyone else in the flds, obeyed the prophet's directive. to obey was the key to salvation.

>>obedience is the only act that you can perform and anything otherwise is damnation.

>>but as
rebecca
entered her teens change was in the air. behind
uncle rulon
's gentle smile, rules hardened, control tightened. not just for
rebecca
, of course, for all of them. this was her
childhood friend
, andrew chatwin.

>>rulon jeffs
started teaching you don't have a choice anymore. you have to be perfectly obedient. you're ordered to donate your time. ordered to donate your car or make sack mices that you normally wouldn't do because it was hurting your family.

>>it was more dictatorial.

>>yeah, very dictatorial. a lot of the members were going around and putting everybody on the spot constantly. they would say, well, are you for him or against him?

>>rebecca
's father was very much for the prophet. he enrolled his children, including
becky
, in
uncle rulon
's special flds school, called the alta academy. and there the elements of an explosion were mixed together. all that remained was to light